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TIL there is a Leg Lengthening Surgery. First your legs are broken and screws inserted. Then your body forms new bone, ligament and arteries to fill the space.

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X0Pa8 TIL the phrase“bleeding heart liberal” came from Pulitzer Price winning journalist, Westbrook Pegler in 1933. He used the phrase denouncing an anti-lynching bill before Congress. He also finished 3rd in Times Man of the Year behind FDR and Stalin in 1941.
N69N TIL a French man named Benoît Lecomte once swam 3,716 miles across the entire Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts to France; the feat took him a total of 73 days, 5 of which included him being followed by a great white shark
VKkk TIL that the French each have a single card that holds their entire medical record going back to 1998, which can be scanned wherever they need medical attention
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